Symptoms include wheezing, coughing, chest tightness, and shortness of breath. The American Chemical Society estimates that “Householders could receive from 6 to 100 times more of the chemicals by breathing the air around showers, baths, etc. … than they would by drinking the water”. Chlorine is vaporized in the shower and inhaled into the lungs where it is transferred directly into the blood system and transported throughout the body.Chlorine chemically bonds with the proteins in our body’s cells. Skin is our body’s largest organ and entirely chlorine absorbent.